SDS during the Viet Nam War. I used to drive a Mustang Mach 1 with a 351 Cleveland Engine.

My Philosophy

This is a quotation that is going to be most important in my life:
Mark Twain: “An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it.”

"There comes a time in life when you have to let go of all the pointless drama & the people who create it and surround yourself with the people that make you laugh so hard, you fart! After all happiness will never come to those who don’t appreciate what they already have."

Steve Jobs

I value myself by living with integrity. I live in fervent love for Our Mother Earth.

What Gives Me Hope

DAWN...all the sunrises I have seen & hope to see.

If I were Mayor, I'd make the world a better place by

I have no interest in being a politician but I would be a devoted assistant to Senator Bernie Sanders if I were asked.

What/who changed my life and why

Learning about the female Buddha, Kwan Yin, while studying Asian art history.

Reading: 'A Whale for the Killing" by Farley Mowat. In this book about a humpback whale, Mowat describes touching one of these precious animals in the water. Mowat writes "His skin was so warm." I swam in the middle of a pod of humpbacks off the north shore of Bermuda. I touched a humpback mother and her calf. It was a moment of enlightenment, a moment of knowing that we are all connected WHEN I touched the warm skin of these animals.

"May I become at all times, both now and forever
A protector for those without protection
A guide for those who have lost their way
A ship for those with oceans to cross
A bridge for those with rivers to cross
A sanctuary for those in danger
A lamp for those without light
A place of refuge for those who lack shelter
And a servant to all in need."
(Buddhist mentality - the bodhisattva heart)
"Holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the person with whom you are angry to die." Buddha

"These temple-destroyers, devotees of ravaging commercialism, seem to have a cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of

"All other animals except the human, acquire things because of need. Humans only are motivated by greed." Farley Mowat

"Dreams do come true. Without that possibility nature would not cause us to have them." John Updike

"Slow down and enjoy life." Eddie Cantor

"Logic will take you from A to Z. Imagination will take you everywhere else." Albert Einstein

"Do not believe what you have heard
Do not believe in tradition
Do not believe in anything spoken of many times
Do not believe in written statements
Do not believe in conjecture
Do not believe in authority, teachers, or elders.
But after careful observation and analysis, when it agrees with reason and it will benefit one and all, then accept it and live by it." Buddha

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